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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1904. 



treasurer. The remaining directors are Hon. Warner Miller, 

 former United States senator for New York, and William N. 

 Ingraham, of Portland, Maine, and also Josd Pardo, recently 

 elected president of Peru, and Juan Pardo, an engineer of high 

 repute in that country. The ofBces of the company for the 

 present will be at No. 256 Broadway, New York. The com- 

 pany has secured the services of J. Austin Pharaoh as general 

 manager. He has been for several years past engaged in the 

 successful exploitation of rubber in Bolivia and Peru. The 

 section of Peru where the company's lands are located has long 

 been known as rich in trees capable of yielding rubber of high 

 grades. 



A BOLIVIAN RUBBER COMPANY OUT OF THE MELD. 



The Bolivian Rubber Co. of Baltimore, mentioned in the 

 issue of this Journal for April i, 1903 [page 226] as having been 

 organized to acquire and develop certain important rubber 

 concessions in Bolivia, was based upon the investment made 

 by Henry A. Parr, a one time wealthy merchant of Baltimore, 

 Maryland. It appears that, under the terms of the agreement 

 with the vendors of the rubber properties involved, the company 

 began work under an option and exported considerable rubber 

 via Mollendo. The purchase of the properties, however, was 

 never completed, owing to business embarrassments which 

 overtook Mr. Parr, and the company above named has ceased 

 to exist. It is understood that the rubber properties, however, 

 continue to be worked by the concessionaires from whom Mr. 

 Parr's' company planned to buy t hem. 



RUBBER AT THE KUALA LUMPUR SHOW. 

 The yearly Agri-Horticultural show of the Federated Malay 

 States was opened on August 8. at Kuala Lampur, by the gov- 

 ernor. Sir John Anderson, K. C. M. c, in the presence of a large 

 attendance. After the opening ceremonies, and the official 

 party had partaken of tiffin, the Straits Times reports that 

 "the party witnessed an exhibition of the process of preparing 

 rubber. The process was carried out lay Mr. P. J. Burgess, the 

 government analyst from Singapore, on a machine specially 

 manufactured by the Federated Engineering Co., of Kuala 

 Lumpur. The rubber went in in sleek slabs of coagulated latex, 

 only to emerge later in a lacerated condition, but shorn of all 

 those impurities which depreciate its value in the eyes of the 

 manufacturer. All appeared to be greatly interested, his ex- 

 cellency in particular putting several questions to Mr. Burgess 

 relative to the process under exhibition." The Straits Times 

 representative, writing of his journey from Singapore to the 

 show, says : " On the way rubber was the favorite topic of con- 

 versation and a large number of young rubber trees was to be 

 seen as the train passed the various estates. There is no doubt 

 that the rubber industry has come to stay and at no distant 

 day will be the mainstay of Malaya." John Little & Co., were 

 mentioned as exhibiting machines for pressing rubber. The 

 committee in charge of the show embraced Messrs. Stanley. 

 Arden, E. V. Carey, and W. W. Bailey, whose names are famil- 

 iar in connection with rubber culture. 



BRIEF MENTION. 



Herr R. F. Wohl, of Berlin, has been added to the board of 

 the Kautschuk-Pflanzung " Meanja " Actiengesellschaft, mak- 

 ing the eighth member. The company was formed in 1903, 

 with headquarters in Berlin, to plant rubber {Kickxia elasticd) 

 in Victoria, Kamerun. [See The India Rubber World 

 February i, 1904 — page 166] 



= Herbert M. Darby, writing from Klang to the Malay Mail, 

 states that while in England recently he saw some £\ shares of 

 the Selangor Rubber Co., Limited, sold at ;£3 25. 6d., or 3^ 

 times their par value. This company's plantation, started in 



1899, was noticed at length in Thf. India Rubber World for 

 September. 



= The Hon. George W. Peck, president of the San Pedro 

 Rubber Plantation Co. (Milwaukee), engaged in planting in the 

 Mexican state of Chiapas, on September 1 was nominated by 

 the Democratic state convention in Wisconsin for the office of 

 governor, which position he filled several years ago. 



= The Vallambrosa Rubber Co,, Limited, was registered 

 April 22, 1904, at Edinburgh, Scotland, with ;£6o,ooo capital, 

 to acquire and develop rubber plantations in the Straits Settle- 

 ments. Registered office : 123, George street, Edmburgh. 



= Late Ceylon newspapers contain advertisements, of which 

 the following is a sample — 



pARA RUBBER SEED at R5 per i.ooo. 

 Delivery August-October. Stumps at R12- 

 50 per 1,000. May onwards delivery. — Apply, 

 Yataderiya Tea Co., Ltd., Kegalle. s w 



— indicating that rubber tree seeds have become there a staple 

 article of commerce. The price quoted — 5 rupees per 1000 — 

 equals §1.62 '4^, or 6j. 8<^. "Stumps "are seedlings which have 

 been tapped, the price equalling $4.06 per 1000. 



RUBBER PLANTATION COMPANY PUBLICATIONS. 



The Vera Cruz Development Co., Canton, Ohio=/.a Esmeralda Bul- 

 letin, July, 1904. 4 pages. 



El Triunfo Rubber Plantation — Alfred C. Adier, Boston, Massachu- 

 setts. =[Report on planting of Ceara rubber (Manihot Glaziovii) in 

 Nicaragua.] 24 pages. 



Conservative Rubber Production Co., San Francisco. = (a) About Our 

 Rubber Plantation. 32 pages. (*) What Our Shareholders Say. 12 pages. 

 (<■) Answers to Some of the Rubber (Questions Shot at Us. 12 pages. 



Sulo-Suchil Plantation Co., Toledo Ohio. = (a) Report of John A. 

 Giedeman, Inspector. 4 pages, (b) Plantation Sulo-Suchil. [Photo- 

 graphic views to illustrate preceding report ] 40 pages. 



RUBBER MATS AND BEESTINGS. 



ONE of the Philadelphia newspapers contained recently an 

 article on the business done by an apiarist near that city 

 in supplying beestings to a chemical laboratory as a source of 

 formic aid, for use in the treatment of rheumatism. This is a 

 business which for some time past has contributed to the profits 

 of beekeeping in different parts of the country, but the novel 

 feature in the Philadelphia newspaper report related to the 

 method employed in depriving the bees of their stings, to- 

 gether with the sac containing the poison. Bees, it was stated, 

 dislike the odor of India-rubber, and, when a mat of this mate- 

 rial is placed near their hives, attack it fiercely, thereby losing 

 their stings. The newspaper adds: " Other apiarists who are 

 undertaking to supply the demand for beestings, pick up the 

 bees, one at a time, with small tweezers, and with another pair 

 of tweezers extract the stings, afterward freeing the insects. 

 This is a slower method than the use of the rubber mat, but 

 apiarists are finding it profitable." In response to an inquiry 

 for details addressed to the Pennsylvania beekeeper referred 

 to, he wrote : 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World : Your letter 

 reached me promptly and all understood. I may seem selfish, but I am 

 sorry I cannot comply with your request. I have spent many years in 

 the bee business, experimenting and practising, as well as studying, and 

 I do not feel at liberty to give years of experience away at the present 

 time. What little the papers have written up has been drawn from me 

 incidentally, and a great deal of it is incorrect. Trusting you will ap- 

 preciate my position, as it is entirely a matter of business, I remain, 

 Yours truly. 



